Pizza, beer and health coverage

Choose your modifier for the headline-a-palooza the other day that alarmed (much of) a nation.

Breathless were the reports: “Obamacare to cost 2.3 million jobs.” It took many variations, through the Wall Street Journal, through UPI, Politico, and of course the foamy tea partisans of Fox News.

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